BV Middle School LMS

Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create and print personalized motivational posters, calendars, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, and a lot more! Buy custom printed calendars, posters, and gifts.

Today, Google introduced a new service for saving, sharing, and discussing files online. The new service is called Google Drive and it combines some of the best elements of Google Docs and Google Plus into one package. In fact, Google Docs is now a part of Google Drive.

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again! This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phones and even the Dropbox website.

The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience.

A place where you can organize and share your favorite websites. It has your bookmarks as widgets, so it makes the layout more interesting to look at and quicker to navigate.

I really like Symbaloo! A place where you can organize and share your favorite websites. How do you like Symbaloo?

The Evernote family of products help you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use.

Common Core Resources

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

free podcasting

Network with other library media specialist and chat in the forums about issues or questions that are relevant to your library program.

web-based thinglink lets you collaboratively produce interactive images. Upload a file to thinglink acct then use the image editor to put placemarks in it. In each placemark you can enter text and link to a web page. The collaborative aspect comes into play when you embed it on your website or blog. You then have the option to allow others to add placemarks. How great would this be with primary source documents and photographs?

ThingLink's exclusive Rich Media Tags feature popular media players and apps. We have tags for YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Google Maps, Spotify, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, eBay, BestBuy, iTunes, Etsy, Mailchimp, FanBridge and more!

A great alternative to Picnik. You can do the basics - crop, rotate, sharpen, reshape and tweak the exposure & color. You can mess around with various special effects like soft focus, boost, cinerama, film grain, focal zoom and more. On photos with people, you can remove blemishes, white teeth, remove red-eye and lose weight. You can add text to your picture choosing from over 30 fonts. Finish your picture off with stickers, a picture frame and textures. This editing tool is user friendly and intuitive. It does not change the original on your computer, so if you don't like what you've created, then just start over. When you are finished, name your photo and save it to your computer.

PicMonkey is a free online photo editor that says Booyah! to whatever your creative heart desires. Basic editing all the way to advanced stuff like cloning, touch-up and eye-gasmic effects. Groovy overlays, textures, and frames. All the photo editing magic of Picnik, with 78% more monkey.

Free site designed for middle school

Someday maybe we will have IPADS!

Microsoft Office 365 for education gives academic institutions a familiar Microsoft Office desktop suite with online versions of next-generation communications and collaboration services. Educators, staff, and students get anywhere access to email and calendars, Office Web Apps, video and online meetings, and document-sharing. FREE

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Creating a thoughtful acceptable use policy in the web 2.0 and Mobile Era without creating a "technology bubble" around kids. We are responsible to see that young people know how to use the tools of their culture in a responsible, safe, intelligent way.

We really need to advocate this!! We need a more permissive AUP.

Carol Ann Tomlinson ideas on differentiated instruction

three day conference that brought together 99 of the nation's top authors and experts in education for presentations, panels, and networking.

Polleverywhere can be embedded in a Prezi for assessment and used with student phones for an assessment